[OSM-talk] OSM and new Wikipedia map features

[Jo]

Japanese has 3 writing systems.

Jo

2018-05-04 1:10 GMT+02:00 Daniel Koć <daniel at koć.pl>:

> W dniu 04.05.2018 o 00:33, Joe Matazzoni pisze:
>
> Here is the list of languages Wikimedia supports. https://en.
> wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1525471804237000&usg=AFQjCNHsOP6lQnhNIucbS2AyFY26AG7tiA> .
> As to the toolchain, if you ask that question on the project page, some of
> our engineers will be able to respond.  Be sure to explain why you’re
> asking, so we can answer you fully.
>
>
> It's not exactly what interests me:
>
> a) do you want to support all these languages (not how many of them are
> there)?
>
> b) how many server resources do you need for rendering <n> languages that
> you want to support (not the software stack used)?
>
> Do you know it or should I ask the engineers anyway?
>
> That is a very interesting edge case we hadn’t thought of.  We’ll have to
> look into that one; our lead engineer just wrote a ticket to investigate:
> https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193815
> <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T193815&sa=D&source=hangouts&ust=1525472750803000&usg=AFQjCNEzVPXSLGmL0dxiGsN09aYPHA7_JA>.
>  I know about Serbian. What other languages do this?
>
>
> Belorusian has two writing systems (see http://openstreetmap.by for 4
> languages demo).
>
> Chineese has few different writing systems.
>
> Buginese can use Lontara or Latin script.
>
>
> There might be more of such cases.
>
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